Wexford’s green ’graveyard’ is a down-to-earth burial

Wexford’s Woodbrook green ‘graveyard’ is a tree-bound meadow of wildflowers and wooden benches and each plot has a wooden marker. Its sustainable ethos is unique in Ireland, says John Hearne.

THE traditional funeral flouts the sustainable ethos: it consigns hundreds of euro worth of non-renewable resources to the ground, tops it off with a concrete memorial, then renders that plot of land unusable.

The Woodbrook natural burial ground, in Killane, Co. Wexford, is the only one of its kind in the country.